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PRISE-DECCMA successful in securing funding for cross-consortia PhD

Kashif Salik, PRISE Research Associate from the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, will join the DECCMA team at the University of Southampton to complete a PhD in the coming months, after PRISE and DECCMA secured funding for cross-consortia research.

The PhD aims to:

Explore climate-induced components of migration patterns and associated vulnerabilities and risks on livelihoods/food security and urbanisation through the analysis of socio-economic parameters

To understand how ‘the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies’ may work; as well as institutions for evidence-based adaptation options

This approach will be nuanced by an understanding of the initial state of poverty of the community studied. This status will be taken into consideration when understanding the drivers of migration in order to:

Determine the degree to which migratory pattern ‘hot spots’ in Pakistan can be associated with climate extremes

Characterise livelihood vulnerabilities and poverty in ‘hotspot areas’ to determine the association between welfare status and the likelihood of migration

Examine what the potential policy implications of climate and socio-economic scenarios for internal migration in Pakistan are.

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This work was carried out under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), with financial support from the UK Government's Department for International Development (DfID) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. The views expressed in this work are those of the creators and do not necessarily represent those of DfID and IDRC or its Board of Governors.